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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize
"Its simplicity lends it grandeur. One thinks of Maxim Gorky, or even the early sketches of Tolstoy."—The Wall Street Journal
"A small miracle of a book, perfectly imagined and perfectly achieved."
—Hilary Mantel, author of Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies
A novel of war, revolution, youth, and friendship...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow--a life filled with salons, balls, and all the trappings of the Upper Class--very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the...
3) Chevengur
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Chevengur is a philosophical novel that is also rich in psychological, social, and sensuous detail. Although it was never publishable in the USSR, it now stands as one of the most celebrated of Soviet novels, and along with The Foundation Pit, it is the most ambitious and moving of Andrey Platonov's efforts to take the measure of a world undergoing revolutionary transformation. The full text of Chevengur is here translated into English for the first...
Author
Publisher
Silvertail Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Moscow, 1932. Gareth Jones, a young Welsh reporter, arrives in the Soviet Union excited to see for himself how Josef Stalin is forging a new civilisation. He meets American and British journalists who acclaim Stalin's great experiment - but when Jones witnesses people starving to death in Ukraine, his belief in the Soviet revolution is shattered. He must decide whether to report the truth or become just another useful idiot, saying only what the...
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